Article source: BROISSIN 

This privately owned corporate, building is stage III of the modernization of “Grupo Financiero Banorte’s” facilities, with a capacity for 1,446 cars in direct response to an aggressive automotive financing program of the group for the employees, at a rate of 8 cars per 10 employees, giving a total of 44,700 m2 contained within 3 basements and 4 floors in the superstructure. Due to the structure’s height, the glazed volume contains positions for 1,143 people on two floors of 6,000 m2 each, a surface that required a strong solution to obtain natural lighting near each user. We then decided to have four inner courtyards open to the interior of the offices, which in addition to mitigating the light problem well, also physically ordering and sectioning departments by optimizing each plant functionally.

VIEW FROM THE STREET TO SOUTHEAST FACADE, Image Courtesy © Alexandre d’ La Roche

• Architects: BROISSIN
• Project: Banorte Financial Group
• Location: Tlalpan, Mexico City / Tlalpan, Ciudad de México
• Photography: Alexandre d’ La Roche
• Partner in Charge: M.Arch. Gerardo Broissin
• Project leader: Arq. David Suarez
• Design Team: M.Arch. Gerardo Broissin, Arq. David Suarez, Arq. Bruno Roche, Arq. Luis Barrera
• Colaborators: Arq. Rosario Mestre, Arq. Alejadro Rocha, Arq. Augusto Mirada, Arq. Mario Uriarte, Arq. José Luis Durán, Arq. Laura Ortiz, Arq. Alfonso Vargas
• Electrical Engineering: IESSA
• HVAC: Triple i

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